Snow cones at Gran's house

We've been enjoying some R&R at Gran's house the past few days. We left Jolie behind to spend a few days at Gran's all by herself. She is looking forward to VBS & being spoiled :) It is already too quiet at our house! Here are some pictures of the girls enjoying snowcones on Friday afternoon. Yummy!

Photo shoot

Jolie was in the mood for a photo shoot last Sunday. Isn't she beautiful?

Too cute

I found this picture of Jolie on my camera & thought it was too cute not to share!

Garden update

I thought you'd all like to see how well our garden is growing! We discovered our first fruits growing today - very exciting!

The big picture (compare to day 1):

Zucchini:

Bell Pepper (one of many tiny little peppers!):

Cucumber (very tiny!):

Squash:

We love ice cream!

Jolie has been asking to go & get ice cream all week so we went for a cold treat tonight. Here are a couple of pictures from my phone.

Here is what a 20 month old looks like when she independently eats a kiddie cup of ice cream (there are too many cute ones to choose so I'm posting several):

The beautiful, big sis wearing less ice creamthan her sister:

Surprise! An Update!

I know you can't believe I am actually updating this blog! I can't believe what a slacker I've been. Todd & I were out of town for a week celebrating our 10th anniversary & we returned home only to leave town again. I'm finally getting back into a routine so hopefully more pictures will be coming your way. I haven't taken any new pictures recently so a couple from the beginning of this month will have to do.

Eating lunch outside. A fun treat.

Isn't she the cutest?

A dream come true

Jolie has been talking for weeks about going to "the BCM fountain." (aka: the fountain in the middle of the ULM campus) We went to eat with some college friends on campus today & the fabulous Mr. Parker took Jolie out to the fountain. Before we knew it they were both wet from head to toe. Jolie LOVED it! Thank you, Parker, we love you!

Our garden

We've been busy planting a garden (primarly veggies) this week. We are hopeful we are going to produce a crop this year.

Todd mixing up our soil.

Jolie posing in between helping us with the soil.

DIRTY Sarah.

Jolie using her watering can.

Our growing squarefoot garden.

Johnny's

One our favorite places to eat out is Johnny's Pizza. Or "the pizza restaurant" as Jolie affectionally calls it. Here are some cell phone pics from our family lunch last Friday:

Texas-sized fun!

We are having a great time at my parents' house. It has really felt like vacation. Enjoy a few hightlights.

We've (especially Jolie!) been enjoying the heated swimming pool & our fun new water squirters.

Making rice krispie treat eggs. Yummy! Jolie has been sleeping comfortably in a guest bedroom, but this is where we found her Easter morning. At some point during the night she made a bed in the bathroom. Silly girl!Easter Sunday.The girls relaxing with their beloved "bear" & "sheep."

Catfish Fesitval

We headed over to the Catfish Festival yesterday with the Spence girls (their daddy was out of town). The girls ate corndogs, jumped in the jumpers, looked at old cars & the big girls even had their face painted. Here are some of my favorite shots of the day...